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Definition of confab in English:

confab

Pronunciation: /kənˈfab//ˈkänfab/

noun

‘The ‘barman’ had overcharged some chap for his round and they ended up having a 5 minute confab about it.’

‘Regardless, Troy Rawhiti-Forbes is in a backstage confab with the other wrestlers.’

‘Across at the changing rooms more players buzz about like excited bees round a honey-pot, the hum of enthusiasm providing the backing track for the latest confab between the club chairman and management team, who are gathered outside.’

‘She whisked my dish away and then had a quick confab with three colleagues before returning it, confident it was the dish I'd ordered.’

‘PM and all chief ministers were holding a confab.’

‘When Roberts was C-in-C he retired to his quarters after an inspection, only to be waited on by senior Indian officers, who wished ‘as private persons to have a confab with the War Lord’.’

‘Last week, the fellows, who over the years eliminated the politicians from their noontime confab, made a double change.’

‘Looking at Risk Control was Iain Cruickshank, another visitor from the capital, who was seen in confab with Dave Davey.’

‘They have already had a confab about Michel, who they swear is a likeable chap, and on condition of anonymity, one ref gave the communal verdict on the Slovakian.’

‘The other night, however, Ben and Dr Spot were seen in deep confab in one of the darker corners, a sight which caused some conjecture.’

‘Churchill's life hung by a thread as a bunch of irritated Boers held a five minute confab to decide whether they ought to shoot their prisoner, a war correspondent who had taken part in the fight.’

‘Nothing less than the truth, but it so alarmed Mrs G that she concluded I must be deeply disturbed and summoned my mother for a confab.’

‘For companies like Cott, the ceremony presents the opportunity for an all-day binge of TV, analyst confabs, and shrimp bowls.’

‘They might be the product of his confabs with the management luminaries of the European game at a forum in Geneva a week past on Friday.’

‘A brief confab and much to the dismay of the defence, Mr Crouch was pointing to the spot.’

‘Hence, he is darting between a demonstration of his new video-analysis equipment - donated by the ECB - and a confab with his physiotherapists.’

1.1North American A meeting or conference of members of a particular group.

‘this year's annual American Booksellers Association confab’

‘Get some fresh blood and stop having the same confab fifty times with the same tired people.’

‘The grand prize winner got to attend both confabs.’

‘She convinced Continental's senior executives to take ownership of important agencies and corporations in assigned territories, and to join marketing staffers on sales calls and at the twice-yearly customer confabs.’

‘One of the few firm goals set at the confab was that adequate sanitation should be supplied by 2015 to half of the 2.2 billion people now lacking it.’

‘In recent years, however, the confab has garnered attention not just from media but from those activists who feel the G8's policies are heavy handed and undemocratic.’

‘Believing one of every 10 happy-talk words that the leaders utter about their confabs would seem to be the appropriate discount rate.’

‘Argentina's previous experience with international art confabs was the series of Latin American exhibitions held in Cordoba in 1962, 1964 and 1966.’

‘That, and the after party at the confab had to be smashing.’

‘They hold endless meetings, planning sessions, conferences, and confabs in which they back pat and self-stroke themselves with awards, plaques, tributes and testimonials.’

‘This was revealed at a media confab held on Nov.29 at its head office.’

‘But all Wright does is repeat platitudes from his last confab at Brookings.’

‘At one of these confabs, I was obliged to tour the floor with my new boss, who wanted to show me how schmoozing the client should be done.’

‘A decades-long dispute over lumber isn't likely to be addressed during the brief confab - even if it is set amid the splendour of a Canadian pine forest.’

‘The journalists' confab featured discussions on diversity that included benchmark goals for racial and ethnic parity in newsrooms.’

‘If ever there was a time when confabs on the future of the entertainment biz are relevant, this is it.’

‘But I read a lot of liberal stuff and have attended more than a few college confabs with liberal speakers speaking on the subject of liberalism itself.’

‘Alliances that frayed or hot products that take longer than expected to reach primetime linger on the minds of everyone who has been at a few of these confabs.’

‘But even that function is pretty meager, for only sparse audiences of curious spectators and hard core loyalists ever show up at their confabs.’

‘Not long after that famous ‘Axis of Evil’ 2002 address, I was sharing a moment with William Kristol at a transatlantic confab in Brussels (where I happen to be again).’

‘By the time the local confabs had concluded at the end of March, it was clear Earley was about to surpass the 4,813 delegate votes required for the nomination, with Hager about 900 behind.’